THE PRESIDENT OF THE INTERNATIONAL TRIBUNAL

Before: Judge Claude Jorda, President

Registrar: Mr. Hans Holthuis

Decision of: 14 March 2001

THE PROSECUTOR

v.

ZORAN KUPRESKIC
MIRJAN KUPRESKIC
VLATKO KUPRESKIC
DRAGO JOSIPOVIC
VLADIMIR SANTIC

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ORDER OF THE PRESIDENT ASSIGNING A JUDGE
TO THE APPEALS CHAMBER

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The Office of the Prosecutor:

Mr. Upawansa Yapa

Defence Counsel:

Mr. Ranko Radovic, Mr. Tomislav Pasaric for Zoran Kupreskic
Ms. Jadranka Slokovic-Glumac, Ms. Desanka Vranjican for Mirjan Kupreskic
Mr. Anthony Abell, Mr. John Livingston for Vlatko Kupreskic
Mr. Luko Susak, Ms. Goranka Herljevic for Drago Josipovic
Mr. Petar Pavkovic, Mr. Mirko Vrdoljak for Mr. Vladimir Santic

 

I, Claude Jorda, President of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia since 1991 (hereinafter "the International Tribunal"),

NOTING the Judgement pronounced by Trial Chamber II in the trial of Zoran Kupreskic, Mirjan Kupreskic, Vlatko Kupreskic, Drago Josipovic and Vladimir Santic on 14 January 2000 (hereinafter "the Judgement"),

NOTING the Order on the assignment of Judges to the Appeals Chamber dated 14 March 2000,

CONSIDERING that, pursuant to Rule 16 of the Rules, Judge Mohamed Bennouna has withdrawn from this appeal,

CONSIDERING that, pursuant to Rule 15(A) of the Rules, President Claude Jorda has withdrawn from this appeal,

CONSIDERING that Article 12(B) of the Statute of the International Tribunal (hereinafter "the Statute") states that five Judges shall serve in the Appeals Chamber,

PURSUANT to Article 14(3) of the Statute and Article 27 of the Rules,

HAVING CONSULTED the Judges of the International Tribunal,

FOR THE FOREGOING REASONS,

DECIDE hereby to assign Judge Liu Daqun to the Appeals Chamber for the appeal against the Kupreskic Judgement.

CONSEQUENTLY, in the case IT-95-16-A, The Prosecutor v. Zoran Kupreskic, Mirjan Kupreskic, Vlatko Kupreskic, Drago Josipovic and Vladimir Santic, the Appeals Chamber shall be composed as follows:

Judge Lal Chand Vohrah

Judge Rafael Nieto-Navia

Judge Patricia Wald

Judge Fausto Pocar

Judge Liu Daqun

 

Done in French and English, the French version being authoritative.

Done this fourteenth day of March 2001
At The Hague
The Netherlands

(signed)
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Claude Jorda
President of the International Tribunal

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